Multitasking in the Desktop App

ChatGPT Bugs
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I’m not sure where this would go, I was hoping to find a feedback section for the Desktop app, but looking for any solutions here as well:

I’d like to be able to have multiple active chats at the same time within the ChatGPT Desktop App that would allow similar functionality to having multiple browser tabs open. For example if I want to run deep research on a topic, and still make general queries, this makes the Desktop App rather inefficient.

I also find context management to be an important part of workflow. Having functionality similar to a web browser where I can use hot keys to move between tabs (Ctrl+Tab, Ctrl+Shift+Tab for moving forward/backward through tabs, or Ctrl+1 to go to the first tab, etc) would be a huge improvement.

If anyone has any suggestions/recommendations here I’d appreciate it. I’m thinking I should likely just use a dedicated browser window as the desktop apps an electron app anyways, so cut out the unecessary middleman considering I don’t even get expanded features using it. A lot left to want with the current buildout.

If this isn’t the right place for this and there’s somewhere better for this topic, also let me know. Cheers.

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Hi there.
Welcom to the forum.

It appears a limitation of the desktop gui. A workaround I use often is to open a browser and set the deep research running in that whilst continuing in gui with whatever else i’m doing. Sometimes if i want true (unbiased from his memory) deep research, i use a second account to log in via browser get that running as an Agent then provide the Agent’s response to Kai and ask him to review it and feddback on the findings.

Ive not seen any issues with multi session / multi tasking. The Agent model is also useful for not cluttering his own memory.

Ben

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I have to imagine its possible. I found an article about how this can be done in react based apps (can’t link it due to forum rules but it’s likely inconsequential.)

I think that unless they plan on making the Desktop App full featured, they may as well just release the quick search menu (Alt+Space) as a standalone utility because as it stands there is no use for the rest of the desktop app as opposed to the browser, and it likely takes more memory to have them both open.